[CentOS] Re: why is this machine using swap space?
Larry Vaden
vaden at texoma.net
Fri Jul 21 17:36:17 UTC 2006
On 7/21/06, William L. Maltby <BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 12:10 -0500, Larry Vaden wrote:
> > On 7/21/06, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
> > > Larry Vaden spake the following on 7/21/2006 8:05 AM:
> > > ><snip>
>
> > OK, I agree that where there is smoke there is not always fire, but I
> > still prefer a smoke-free environment.
>
> I quit buying last 8/18/05. Had 35 since. Used to be 2+ packs per day. I
> haven't quit, just decided to smoke less.
>
> When you check out that thread I mentioned, you'll see how. I did *not*
> use the "swappiness" thingy and I have 8k used ATM. Max I've seen
> recently is 44K (however updatedb and makewhatis running together will
> get it to 144M or so on this X workstation).
Here's what got my curiosity up (and wondering why the swap'd item(s)
didn't eventually expire); the first machine is running sendmail, the
others are running postfix.
Mem: 1025076k total, 602508k used, 422568k free, 42204k buffers
Swap: 2031608k total, 600k used, 2031008k free, 506496k cached
Mem: 1295916k total, 719596k used, 576320k free, 70192k buffers
Swap: 2031608k total, 144k used, 2031464k free, 441984k cached
Mem: 1295916k total, 707076k used, 588840k free, 127812k buffers
Swap: 2031608k total, 144k used, 2031464k free, 327920k cached
Mem: 1295916k total, 604212k used, 691704k free, 91576k buffers
Swap: 2031608k total, 144k used, 2031464k free, 159620k cached
Mem: 2075040k total, 1379836k used, 695204k free, 40852k buffers
Swap: 2031608k total, 144k used, 2031464k free, 1239196k cached
rgds/ldv
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